<p>how can you improve your ACT English score?</p>
<p>i do well in all other sections but always seem to get 27,28 on english...thanks in advance for your help</p>
<p>can someone please help me..</p>
<p>I would say do two practice tests and look over your mistakes and the explanations. Then go back to first test and see if you get a 32 or higher. Another thing, shortest answer is usually best probably about 85-90 percent of the time, especiallyn on redundants. Good luck :D</p>
<p>Read - Dickens or the Onion, whatever you enjoy and can stick with. That way, you're used to seeing grammar, sentence structure, and vocab in context, so when you get to the test you can sense which answer choice just "sounds" right. I agree with Galib, be careful of redundant or overly wordy answer choices: succinct is good (well, as long as it's right, anyway). Pay attention to answer choices that eliminate the original mistake but add a new one. Also, try to read the sentences around the one you're focusing on - context can help you spot mistakes. Finally, do some good old-fashioned practice tests, and try to determine your weakest points so you can drill.</p>
<p>Hope this helps - good luck!</p>
<p>(P.S. I have your problem in reverse - I got a 36 on English and way worse in math/science, so I feel your pain.)</p>
<p>thanks. are there any study book and prep you would recommend to increase my score??</p>
<p>personally...how did you improve your English scores? what did you study?</p>
<p>Learn your idioms, verb forms, and parallelism. The ACT really likes infinitives, so if in doubt choose the infinitive form. Learn all the rules for commas as well. </p>
<p>As far as study books, I heard the Princeton Review book is really great for English. English was the only section I never had to study for to get a 36, so I wouldn't know.</p>
<p>can anyone recommend any good prep books??</p>
<p>lol this thread's like the perfect thread for me...
any advice?</p>
<p>me too (for being a perfect thread)
what i've tried doing so far is just taking two practice tests and their english portions. reviewed the problems and asked my friends if i didn't understand particularly WHY the answer was so and so. and then what i do, is after i finish taking test two, i go back to test one and retake it again learning the mistakes i made previous, but also some knowledge gained from test two. and then i go back to test two, then test one, until i get a perfect score to help reiterate the rule. </p>
<p>this is just a "pilot" thing i'm trying to for myself and hopefully it works. </p>
<p>and make sure that you don't do it all in the same day or else you'd be memorizing answers, spread it over a week or something like that. hopefully that'll be a method to help.</p>
<p>but i would be GLAD to here other methods.</p>
<p>bump ------------ anybody really think my pilot plan works? i've improved the score from 23 to 29, but am i just meerly just memorizing answers?</p>
<p>the only way to know if your plan is working is to take a different test, one you haven't seen. see what happens.</p>
<p>This is really stupid but sparknotes helped me raise a 28 to a 32 on english enabling me to get a 33 composite from my previous 31. Their quick grammer review is really great for going over basic stuff I had forgotten.</p>
<p>Oh and if you don't know the answer for the English, pick the shortest because it's usaully right. ACT is all about to the point and concise.</p>
<p>This. ACT loves succinct answers</p>
<p>The act def. uses predictable types of questions on the english section, so the more practice tests you take the better. The book "The Real Act" really helped me because it explained why each individual choice is either correct or incorrect. Don't be afraid to choose "delete x" because that choice is frequently the right answer.</p>
<p>I really never studied for it but I recalled much of the English ACT section from middle school English. I took a practice test in class between my first and second times taking it and I don't recall learning really anything from it. I think the most important thing is to read what you like as stated earlier. After my first attempt (June after Soph year) I read the Harry Potter series and as nerdy as it sounds really enjoyed it. Along with boosting the English score, it had a definite effect on my Reading section.</p>
<p>PS: When you have to guess during the test and you don't have it narrowed down to two good answers choose the shortest answer. A friend of mine did nothing other than choose the shortest one and made an 18.</p>